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A Story, a Story

Published
Feb 1970
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General Fiction General Fiction
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36

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Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal–winning picture book.

Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell?

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Jan 1986 Simon & Schuster ISBN 0689704232
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Mar 1988 Aladdin ISBN 0689712014
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Feb 1970 Atheneum ISBN 0689205112
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Feb 1988 Perfection Learning ISBN 0812428102
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Feb 1988 Turtleback Books ISBN 0881036064
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Mar 2012 Atheneum ISBN 1442458992
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Mar 2012 Atheneum ISBN B007NM41M6
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Jun 2008 Weston Woods Studios ISBN B001CMOQ3C
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